Re: Static discharge from my air compressor

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>



> I've had a similar experience! Air Compressors could make
> a very powerful Van De Graff machine if you were to use
> fine sand inside a PVC pipe with a charge collector!!!

    Such a design, using dust, was proposed in the 1940s, by a French
    scientist.  (I do no t recall Tesla proposing it: there is much i don't
    know....)

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	dwp

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